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The higher the life expectancy in a society, the smaller the difference between the ages at which people will die.
An international team of scientists, including researchers from the Population Europe Partners, including the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging, has discoverd a novel regularity for vastly different human societies and epochs.
Read the full press release here. [...]

Who are the refugees who arrived in Europe in the summer and fall of 2015? What are their motivations, their intentions, their skills, their attitudes? A new study in PLOS ONE by researchers from the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital now sheds light on these important questions. Lead researcher Isabella Buber-Ennser and colleagues conducted a survey (Displaced Persons in Austria Survey DiPAS) and gathered information on 972 individuals from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan who arrived in Austria in 2015. [...]

A new data set provides a comprehensive look at population dynamics in Europe, including the influence of migration on population growth and the effect of population ageing
(Press release by IIASA)
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Depending on the country, nonstandard work shifts can mean work-life reconciliation or a tough labour market

Nonstandard work shifts (NSS) are a controversial feature of labour markets. To some, they represent degradation of working conditions; to others, the flexib­ility needed to enter the labour market in tough times and reconcile work with home life. [...]

For the first time in history, the average age of the British population has exceeded 40. In the mid-1970s, it was 34. Thanks to our ever-improving longevity and the ageing of younger migrants, it is estimated the 60+ age group will account for 75% of the UK’s population growth by 2040. British people will be living longer in a population that is itself growing older. [...]

Fanny Kluge, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Rostock/Germany, one of Population Europe's Partners, has estimated how different the effects of an aging society will be on different European countries. One finding of her work is that the countries that have yet to recover from the Great Recession will face massive problems within a few decades.
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